Book Description

Welcome to a Paradelle Universe; where rigid rules are transcended and creative imagination discovers ever surprising potentialities. A universe where formalized and uncompromising poetic structures succumb to a radicalized deconstruction of their basic elements; then reconstructed through an almost word by word re-ordering and reinvention of the poems original meaning, images and intent. The Paradelle is a form of poetry whose time is now: a time of stagnating social theories, fossilized religious traditions, and a political system paralyzed by its own impossibilities. A time of constant unrelenting change and adaptation, of innovative ideas reconfiguring outdated concepts and beliefs; of individual and collective human consciousness expanding beyond existing borders and horizons. A Paradelle reflects this evolving planetary process in the fundamental reinvention of itself ... never exactly certain of where its going or how it will get there; yet always managing to arrive at the coherent conclusion of its revealed destination. Even then the Paradelle refuses to become a static statement of all that has been said and done. The poem learns from each rewriting how to speak for itself. All that a Paradelle asks for is a fair hearing. To be given a voice ... for the blessing of living breath.